Currently undergoing an extensive refurbishment Satsuma, Soho’s urban-style Japanese restaurant, is set to officially re-launch on 1 September 2011. The complete redesign will include pod-style seating for up to four diners. Diners who visit the restaurant during the two week soft opening period, from mid-August until 31 August 2011, will receive 25% off the total food and drinks bill.
Delimann West Country cream tea delivered to your door
We eat them wherever we can – in five star hotels, in tea shops in the country, in secret – but having them delivered at home, in deli-style rustic packaging, is much more of a treat according to Joanna Biddolph.
Lutyens restaurant in London
I’d like to see what chef David Burke can do a la carte; the constrictions of keeping to the £40 line are perhaps too much to handle given the overheads of a place like this. That said the Lutyens meal deal is a fair one, nothing stunning but perfectly ok and you get to eat in a classier place than you deserve for the money.
Vegetarian restaurant near Regent Street, London
It’s always a pleasure to discover new, vibrant parts of London that make you wonder how you ever managed to miss it. Heddon Street is one such enclave off Regent Street where hundreds of party-goers and vegetarians (and vegetarian party-goers?) flock for a nibble at Tibits before dancing the night away.
Blackfriars, Newcastle
Annie Lund visits the self-proclaimed oldest dining room in the UK, to find a confusing but enjoyable dining experience.
How to Make Your Own Drinks
Homemade booze is all the rage and easy to make. Forget pea pod wine of The Good Life fame and instead put your trust in wine and all round drinks expert, Susy Atkins.
Busaba Eathai to open in Covent Garden
Busaba Eathai, the modern Thai restaurant, is expanding – bringing the taste of Thailand to Covent Garden, with its eighth addition opening on Thursday 30 June, in Floral Street.
Codorniu and Catalan Cooking
Bea’s of Bloomsbury is on the main drag, rocked by the passing buses on route to Hoxton and points East. Inside it’s two-thirds kitchen and one third cake shop. Tonight the shutters are down and the kitchen is the focus for Rachel McCormack’s Catalan cuisine cook up with sponsors Cordorniu Cava.
Tristan Welch takes over the kitchen at Sam’s Brasserie
On Monday 4th July Tristan Welch of Launceston Place will take over the kitchen at Sam’s Brasserie (Barley Mow Centre, 11 Barley Mow Passage, Chiswick W4 4PH) for one night only.
Divine is the official chocolate bar at Glastonbury 2011
Whether you can trudge through the sludge down at Worthy Farm, or if you are at home and dry, you can indulge in a Divine fantasy, as Joanna Biddolph explains.